Product Technology M&A Director

As a Product Technology Director, you’ll focus on evaluating software platforms through an integrated commercial, operational, and financial lens. The team provides investment-grade insights that tie product architecture and roadmap credibility directly to valuation, growth, and margin sustainability.

About the role

Lead Product Technology Diligence engagements for Private Equity and strategic clients, assessing software platforms across technical architecture, product strategy, operational scalability, and financial sustainability. This role requires the ability to tie commercial, operational, and financial performance of a software platform directly to its technology architecture and roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Lead buy-side and sell-side Product Technology Diligence engagements
• Assess product architecture, scalability, security, and extensibility
• Evaluate roadmap credibility against commercial growth thesis
• Analyze technical debt and modernization requirements
• Evaluate AI and data platform maturity
• Assess DevOps, SDLC maturity, and engineering productivity
• Tie product roadmap to ARR growth, NRR expansion, pricing power, and customer acquisition efficiency
• Assess technical enablers and constraints impacting margin structure and hosting costs
• Evaluate engineering cost base and R&D investment requirements
• Develop forward-looking capital investment views and EBITDA impact assessments
• Support valuation narratives based on platform strength and scalability
• Evaluate engineering organization structure and scalability
• Assess product management maturity and governance
• Analyze release cadence and roadmap execution risk
• Identify talent gaps and key person dependencies
• Lead management interviews (CTO, CPO, Engineering Leads)
• Develop executive-ready reports with investment implications
• Present findings to PE deal teams and portfolio leadership
• Mentor Managers and Senior Consultants
• Support proposal development and commercial structuring

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 10+ years in product architecture leadership, product tech diligence, CTO advisory, or software platform strategy
• Experience in PE-backed or high-growth SaaS environments
• Deep understanding of SaaS business models, cloud-native architectures, data platforms, and DevOps
• Experience tying technology findings to commercial and financial outcomes
• Executive presence
• Strong commercial acumen
• Ability to translate architecture into valuation impact
• Structured and hypothesis-driven thinker
• Ability to operate in deal timelines
• Ability to travel up to 50%

Pay

The base salary range for this position is between $239,160 and $309,412. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity.

Schedule

Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site.

Benefits

We support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all identities, roles, and aspirations. For an overview of our benefit offerings, visit Grant Thornton’s rewards and benefits page.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance programs
• Employee assistance program
• Paid sick leave (minimum of 72 hours)
• Paid firm holidays
• Eligibility to participate in the firm’s 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan (seasonal employees)
• Discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance (regular employees only)

About Us

At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result—for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It’s what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better.

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